There is a simple formula to adduce the cousin level and the removes. For any two people in a family tree, identify the first common ancestor and then count the generations from that ancestor to each person. Let these counts be A and B. The lessor of A, B minus 2 is the cousin level and the positive difference between A, B is the number of removes. Works every time. There is no formal method for aunt/uncle or niece/nephew level. Sent from my iPad John Ferman Email in header On Jun 19, 2012, at 2:00 AM, roots-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Re: [ROOTS-L] COUSINS 1ST AND 2ND REMOVED vs SECOND COUSINS

Do you teach algebra in your day job? Gale Gorman Houston On Jun 19, 2012, at 10:12 AM, John Ferman wrote: There is a simple formula to adduce the cousin level and the removes. For any two people in a family tree, identify the first common ancestor and then count the generations from that ancestor to each person. Let these counts be A and B. The lessor of A, B minus 2 is the cousin level and the positive difference between A, B is the number of removes. Works every time. There is no formal method for aunt/uncle or niece/nephew level. Sent from my iPad John Ferman Email in header